Americae tertia pars memorabilẽ provinciæ Brasiliæ historiam continẽs, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioãne Stadio, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annæo Priuato Colchanthe [i.e. J.A. Lonicer] Addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, quã ille intio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regiones, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum

by: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598

Publication date: 1592

Topics: Indians of South America, Tupinamba Indians, Tupi language, Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571?, Indians of South America -- Brazil, Travel, Brazil -- Description and travel, America -- History -- To 1810, America, Brazil

Publisher: [Francofvrti ad Moenvm], [Impressum apvd I. Wechelvm, impensis T. de Bry] venales reperiũtur in officina T. de Bry

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin

First edition, first issue

Signatures: a-b, A-2Q (2Q4 a blank)

Imprint information supplied from colophon, sig. 2Q3v, except for distributor which appears on the engraved t.p

A second engraved t.p. introduces the 2nd section: Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae ... a Ioanne Lerio Bvrgvndo ... illustrata per Theodorum de Bry Leo. Venales reperiutur in officina Theodori de Bry

Third section has printed t.p.: Exemplar dvarvm litterarvm ... Latio donatæ a C.C.A. Francofvurti : Typis Ioannis Welcheli, MDXCII

Contains an account of two voyages made to Brazil in 1546-1548 and 1549-1555 by Hans Staden, translated into Latin by Adam Lonitzer; an account of a voyage to Brazil in 1556-1558, by Jean de Léry; and two letters of Nicolas Barré, dated 1 February and 25 May, 1552, which relate to Brazil

Includes index

Church, E. D. Discovery

Sabin

Brunet

Grässe

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Library's copy lacks map of South America. Appropriate ill. appears on p. 52, not pasted on p. 56. Ill. of Adam and Eve appears on p. 144, signed Theodore de Bry fe

[16], 296, [14] pages 34 cm

"Exemplar dvarvm litterarvm, qvibvs ... explicantvr, et navigatio Nicolai Villagagnonis in illam Americæ prouinciam, qvæ ... ad tropicum vsque Capricorni extenditur; & mores consuetudinesque incolarum eius regionis. Scriptae ... a quodam e Uillagagnonis domesticis [i.e. Nicolas Barré]": pages 285-295

First ed., 2d issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America. 149; with the 6 virtues in addition to the 7 coats of arms on p. [5] of first group and the correct illus. printed on p. 52

Publishing information taken from colophon

Notes

No table of contents. Foxing. Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text.

Addeddate: 2012-08-31 21:35:37

Associated-names: Barré, Nicolas; Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576. Americae tertia pars memorabilẽ provinciae Brasiliae historiam continẽs; Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611. Narratio profectionis